The entrance to South High School will look different when students start classes this fall.

The City of Cheyenne has agreed to purchase a $20,000 sculpture of an enlarged Western Salsify flower going to seed, which will be placed in the roundabout intersection near the school.

Mayor Rick Kaysen says art teachers and students at South High School have been working with University of Wyoming art professor Ashley Hope Carlisle to come up with a piece suitable for the space.

"What it represents is students coming and going at the triad of schools near South High School," said Kaysen.  "So as a student leaves one school they enter the next school, they enter the next school, then after the completion of their education it's much like a dandelion, it grows and matures and then it flowers and then it goes off into the next phase of its life."

Kaysen encourages anyone interested in helping fund the project to contact him. So far, the city has received $7,500 in donations. Kaysen says they plan to use existing funds from Art in Public Places and the Cheyenne Area Arts Council to cover the remaining cost of the project.

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